Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-10

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New Brunswick to get John Livingston
to stop the revival.
Well, there was no better soul in all
the world than John Livingston. He
went and looked at the revival; they
wanted him to stop it. He stood in the
pulpit on the Sabbath, and looked over
the solemn auditory and he said: "This,
brethren, is in reality
THE WORK OF GOD;
beware how you try to stop it." And he
! was an OLD man, leaning heavily on his
| staff-a very old man. And ne lifted that
staff, and took hold of the small end of
the staff, and began 10 let it fall very
slowly through, between the finger and
the thumb,aud he said: son, thou impen-
iteDt; thou art falling nOw-tsllng away
from life, falling away from peace and
/ heaven, falling as certainly as that cane
4 is falling through my hGnG-falling Ger
taiuly, though perhaps falling slowly"
/ And the cane kept on falling through
John LivIngston's hand. The religious
emotion in the audience was CyerpOwer-
ing, and men saw g type Of their doom,
| as the cane Kept falling and falling, until
the knob of The cane struck Mir. Living
stOn's hand, and he clasped it stoutIy and
said: 'But the grace OF God can stop you,
( as l stopped that cane?" and then there
was gladness al through the house 1t the
| fact Of pardon and peace and salvation.
"Well," said the people after the service,
81 guess you had better send Livingston
home; he is making the revival worse. ~
/ Oh, for the gales from heaven, and Christ
on board the ship! The danger OF the
Church OF God is not in REVEALS.
-
the fact that Jesus was God gnd man in
/ the same being. Here be is in the back
| part of the boat. Oh, how tired ne locks ;
what sad dreams he must have. Look Il
his cOuntenance; He must DC thinking of
the cross to come. Look at Him, He
is man-bone OF our bones, flesh OF
our flesh. Tired, He falls asleep; He is
q man. But when | find Christ st the
Prov of the boat; | hear Him say:
"Peace, be stilI;" and l see the storm
kneeling at his feet, and the tempests
folding their wings in his presence; He is
q God.
Ii L have sorrow and trouble, and want
sympathy, l go aud
KNEEL DOWN
ct the back part of the boat, and say
80, Christ weary one of Genesaret,
sympathiZe with Gil my sorrows, man OF
Nazareth, man of the cross" A man, 3
man. But if l want to conquer ny spir-
itual foes, if | want to get the victory
over sin, death, and hell, 1 come to the
front Of the boat, and l kneeI down, and
l say: so, Lord Jesus Christ, Thou who
dost hush the tempest, hush 81 my grief;
hush all my temptation, hush al my sim"
A man, man; God, Il God.
| learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush g tempest.
II did seem as if everything must 90 to
ruin. The disciples rad given up the
idea of managing the ship; the crew were
entirely demoraliZed; yet Christ rises,
and He puts His foot on the storm, and it
crouches at His feet. On, yes Christ
can hush the tempest.
You have had trouble PERHAPS it Wss
the little child taken away from Vou-the
sweetest child Of the household, the one
who asked the most curious questions,
aud stood around you with the grestest
fondness, and the spade cut down through
your bleeding heart. Perhaps it was an
only sOr, and your heart has ever since
been like desOlated castle, the owls of
the night hooting among the fallen arches
and the Crumbling stairways.
Perhaps it was an aged mother. You
always went to her with your troubles.
She was in your home to welcome your
children into life, and when they died
she was there to pity you; that old hand
will do you nc more kindness; that white
lock of hair you put away IN the casBet,
or N the locket, didn't look as it usually
did when she brushed 1t away from her
Wrinkled brow in the home circle or in
the country church. Or your property
gone, you said: 81 have so much bank
stock, 1 have so many government secu-
rites, have so many houses, I have so
many FARMS
ALL GONE, ALL GONE.
Why, sir, alI the storms that ever
trempled their thunders, all the ship
wrecks have not been worse than this to
you. Yet you have not been completely
overthroWn. Why? Christ hushed the
tempest. Your little one was taken
away. Christ says: 81 have that little
one in my keeping. | can care for him as
well as you can, better than you can, o
bereaved mother" flushing the tenn
dest. When your property went away
God said; "There are treasures in
heaven, in banks that never break"
Jesus hushiDg the tempest.
There is one storm into which we will
all have to run. The moment when we
let go of this life, and try to take hold of
the next, we will want all the grace pos
sible. Yonder l see q Christian soul
rocking on the surges of death; all the
powers of darkness seem let out against
that soul-the swirling wave, the thunder
of the sky, the shrek of the
wind, all seem to unite
together; but that soul is
not troubled; there is DO signing, there
are no tears; plenty of tears in the room
at departure, but he Weeps no tears ;calm,
satisfied, peaceful; all is we'll. By the
fash of the storm you see the harbor just
ahead, and you are making for that har
Dor. All shall be well, Jesus husning
the tempest.
Into the harbor of heaven now we glide;
We're home at last, home at last.
Softly we drift on iJs bright, silv'ry tide,
Were home at last.
"Glory TO God all our dangers are DER.
We stand secure on the glorlied shore;
Glory to CT d we will shout evermore.
We're home at last